diff --git a/recipes/retroarch/recipe.toml b/recipes/retroarch/recipe.toml
index 02a0e5796c207d22f9366c83931343e00163a735..e878cb2494f96f731fae5fd58d47b215d017d622 100644
--- a/recipes/retroarch/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/retroarch/recipe.toml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "liborbital",
     "llvm",
     "mesa",
+    "openssl",
     "sdl2",
     "zlib",
 ]
@@ -20,10 +21,13 @@ rsync -av --delete "${COOKBOOK_SOURCE}/" ./
 COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=(
     --host="${TARGET}"
     --prefix="/"
-    --disable-builtinzlib
-    --disable-networking # missing ifaddrs.h
+    --disable-builtinzlib # conflicts with zlib
+    --disable-discord # does not link
+    --disable-netplaydiscovery # missing ifaddrs.h
     --disable-thread_storage # crash in pthread_setspecific called by sthread_tls_set
     --enable-opengl
+    --enable-sdl2
+    --enable-ssl
     --enable-zlib
 )
 cookbook_configure